Trayvon was under a five-day suspension when he was shot that Sunday night, but Kypriss[Michelle Kypriss, Trayvon’s English teacher at Dr. Michael M. Krop] said it was due to tardiness and not misbehavior.

“Trayvon was not a violent or dangerous child. He was not known for misbehaving,” the teacher said. “He was suspended because he was late too many times.”

Still, Trayvon had nonviolent behavioral issues in school, and on the day he was killed, he had been suspended for 10 days from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade.

“He was not suspended for something dealing with violence or anything like that. It wasn’t a crime he committed, but he was in an unauthorized area [on school property],” Martin said, declining to offer more details.

In October, a school police investigator said he saw Trayvon on the school surveillance camera in an unauthorized area “hiding and being suspicious.” Then he said he saw Trayvon mark up a door with “W.T.F” — an acronym for “what the f—.” The officer said he found Trayvon the next day and went through his book bag in search of the graffiti marker.

Instead the officer reported he found women’s jewelry and a screwdriver that he described as a “burglary tool,” according to a Miami-Dade Schools Police report obtained by The Miami Herald.

Word of the incident came as the family’s lawyer acknowledged that the boy was suspended in February for getting caught with an empty bag with traces of marijuana, which he called “irrelevant” and an attempt to demonize a victim.

Trayvon’s backpack contained 12 pieces of jewelry, in addition to a watch and a large flathead screwdriver, according to the report, which described silver wedding bands and earrings with diamonds.

Trayvon was asked if the jewelry belonged to his family or a girlfriend. “Martin replied it’s not mine. A friend gave it to me,” he responded, according to the report. Trayvon declined to name the friend.

Trayvon was not disciplined because of the discovery, but was instead suspended for graffiti, according to the report. School police impounded the jewelry and sent photos of the items to detectives at Miami-Dade police for further investigation.

Trayvon, who was a junior at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, had never been arrested, police and the family have said.

“Martin was suspended, warned and dismissed for the graffiti,” according to the report prepared by schools police.

That suspension was followed four months later by another one in February, in which Trayvon was caught with an empty plastic bag with traces of marijuana in it. A schools police report obtained by The Miami Herald specifies two items: a bag with marijuana residue and a “marijuana pipe.”

The punishment was the third for the teen. On Monday, the family also said Trayvon had earlier been suspended for tardiness and truancy.

Anyone else find it kind of funny that the Department of Juvenile Justice says Trayvon does not have a juvenile offender record yet somehow Frances Robles of the Miami Herald is able to get reports about Trayvon from the Miami-Dade Schools Police (M-DSPD)?

Oh and Trayvon had never been arrested? Gee, what a coincidence, because the system is specifically set up to keep it from going down that road.

Is it just a coincidence that on Feb 21 when Tracy sent Trayvon to stay with Brandy Trayvon’s cousin tweeted this?:

I don’t think so brothers and sisters. I think Trayvon was suspended for 10 days for some sort of incident with a school bus driver on Feb 21.

My guess is the school, M-DSPD, Trayvon’s parents and the bus driver all agreed to keep in line with the philosophy of keeping kids out of the system, probably gave the bus driver some compensation and Tracy and Sybrina said they would get Trayvon out-of-town [Miami Gardens] for a while.

Since Tracy was working and had the Freemason convention to attend on the following weekend [Orlando] he shipped Trayvon up to Sanford to stay with [girlfriend] Brandy who would also be attending the convention.

DiwataMan’s website is available here and contains a large volume of data resources for this ongoing story.

The Tip Of The iceberg - Knowing what we know now about the controversy that erupted within the M-DSPD immediately following the Trayvon Martin shooting, and against the backdrop of their “diversion program” in the national spotlight of the Juvenile Justice System, it appears the Trayvon incident might just be the tip of the iceberg.

Hurley’s relationship with School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho might be the key that unlocks the door to that question. But, that would take an actual investigation. Carvalho appears unwilling to advance discipline toward the former Chief.

It appears the “system” grew to such an extent, failure, or even the optic of possible failure, could not be an option. Obviously within a system containing that much political pressure there are bound to be people who take action to cover flaws or hide outcomes which do not support the optic of national success.

To the extent that Trayvon’s behavior made him one of the statistics within such a system the sunlight of failure becomes a political liability. Such is the case with the Dept of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS) being send en masse specifically to Miami-Dade in advance of any outcome for the George Zimmerman case.

20 Responses to The Rabbit Hole Of Trayvon Martin (By DiwataMan) – AND – The Tip Of The Iceberg For M-DSPD….

I’m not done reading yet but I felt compelled to post after I read “I wanted some one-on-one time with him”. Yah, that’s why Tracy Martin dumped Trademark with Brandy for three days, then left Trademark and Brandy’s son Chad to fend for themselves for another day or two. And that’s why Tracy didn’t bother to find out where Trademark was until Trademark was dead for 12 hours. Doting father award winner here!

Cool, thank you. Hopefully one day we’ll know what O’Mara gets from the Krop subpoena in the sense of if it jives with what we know so far, I know we won’t actually see it being Trayvon was a juvenile. If it doesn’t we know something seriously went wrong and I would expect a growing deposition list. I think we should also expect a subpoena headed this way; http://www.miamidade.gov/juvenileservices/about.asp

Very excellent article regarding the political ramifications ongoing in the school and school’s police department and how it all is tied to the inconvient character of Trayvon. Very well done. I have enjoyed reading the information on this site…very fine work indeed.

I still don’t believe the three suspensions were for those reasons. the grafitti and burglary tools were written up with Dade Schools Police. we still don’t know the truth, but it wasn’t for having an empty marijuana baggie (remember Robles printed that), and it’s illegal to suspend for tardiness. Michelle Kypriss should be held responsible for her lie.

Nearly 400 students and staff from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High joined School Board Member Dr. Martin Karp and Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho during a Candlelight Vigil in memory of Trayvon Martin, a student at the school who was killed in Sanford, Florida on February 26. School Board Member Dr. Martin Karp and Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho addressed students, along with Principal Dawn Baglos, Trayvon’s teacher Michelle Kypriss, and Miami-Dade Schools Police Chief Charles Hurley.
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So ,
In order to keep delinquents from being “labeled”, they classified violent acts as benign AND it seems they also refused to investigate the JEWELRY (could have been stolen from the retreat at twin lakes).
HOW WOULD THAT CHANGE THE STORY, if it could be proven that trayvon had previously burgled at rtl & the cops refused to even check thoroughly (so he wouldnt be “labelled”?
Thanks diawata.

I noticed in the *money shot* of Trayvon, that looks very much like a hotel bathroom. Notice the travel sized toiletries and the door handle? It looks that way to me. It makes me wonder why and when he was in a hotel room with a wad of cash. Maybe nothing to it at all…I am just curious.